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New Book Illuminates Legal Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots

October 25, 2011 Buck Banks

From the nation’s beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country’s political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world.

— From “With Liberty and Justice for Some,” by Glenn Greenwald.

Republicans Love Twitter — Dems, Not So Much

October 25, 2011 Buck Banks

1.3 million

Number of Twitter followers House Republicans have versus roughly 600,000 for their Democrat counterparts, according to The New York Times. Republican members also are far more active on Twitter, with more than 157,000 individual Twitter messages, versus roughly 62,000 for Democrats.

Nation Split on Occupy Movement, Still Hates Tea Party

October 25, 2011 Buck Banks

39%

Of Americans support the Occupy Wall Street movement while 35% say they oppose it, according to a new Pew Research/Washington Post poll . By contrast, more say they oppose the Tea Party movement than support it, 44% vs. 32%.

Romney Says He Offers Stability

October 25, 2011 Buck Banks

I may not be as incendiary or outlandish in rhetoric as some have been in the race…but I think, in the final analysis, people want someone who is stable, solid.

— Mitt Romney, in an interview with Sean Hannity, defending himself as a true conservative.

Perry Campaign Ready to Go Nasty

October 25, 2011 Buck Banks

Perry won’t just go negative. He’ll make your television bleed and beg for mercy.

— GOP media strategist Alex Castellanos, quoted by Politico, on the coming assault on Mitt Romney.

Herman Cain Ad – Not the Onion

October 25, 2011October 25, 2011 Jon Ponder

This is not (meant to be) a joke.

The Nelsons Support OWS

October 24, 2011 Buck Banks

OK, it’s not the best poem ever, but Willie Nelson is still way cool.

It’s not because interest in #Occupy has begun to lag,
And it’s not because of a Twitter censorship gag.
The OWS topic’s not trending
Because members are spending
All their time making more than 100,000 hashtags!

Most Americans Would Dump the Electoral College

October 24, 2011October 24, 2011 Buck Banks

62% vs. 35%

Of Americans think the president of the United States should be elected on the basis of the national popular vote than by winning in the Electoral College. Democrats continue to be more favorable than Republicans to what would be a major constitutional change.

Don Converts Rick

October 24, 2011 Buck Banks

Just when we thought this story could go no further,
Rick Perry sat down with The Donald for burgers.
While Perry sat masticating,
Trump was bombasticating,
And now it seems Rick’s a born-again “birther.”

Month: October 2011

New Book Illuminates Legal Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots

— From “With Liberty and Justice for Some,” by Glenn Greenwald.

Republicans Love Twitter — Dems, Not So Much

1.3 million

Number of Twitter followers House Republicans have versus roughly 600,000 for their Democrat counterparts, according to The New York Times. Republican members also are far more active on Twitter, with more than 157,000 individual Twitter messages, versus roughly 62,000 for Democrats.

Nation Split on Occupy Movement, Still Hates Tea Party

39%

Of Americans support the Occupy Wall Street movement while 35% say they oppose it, according to a new Pew Research/Washington Post poll . By contrast, more say they oppose the Tea Party movement than support it, 44% vs. 32%.

Romney Says He Offers Stability

I may not be as incendiary or outlandish in rhetoric as some have been in the race…but I think, in the final analysis, people want someone who is stable, solid.

— Mitt Romney, in an interview with Sean Hannity, defending himself as a true conservative.

Perry Campaign Ready to Go Nasty

Perry won’t just go negative. He’ll make your television bleed and beg for mercy.

— GOP media strategist Alex Castellanos, quoted by Politico, on the coming assault on Mitt Romney.

Herman Cain Ad – Not the Onion

The Nelsons Support OWS

Occupied by Hashtags

Most Americans Would Dump the Electoral College

62% vs. 35%

Of Americans think the president of the United States should be elected on the basis of the national popular vote than by winning in the Electoral College. Democrats continue to be more favorable than Republicans to what would be a major constitutional change.

Don Converts Rick

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.